Chronic. Persistent. Long-lasting. Perpetual. Stubborn. Insistent. Unrelenting. Constant. Incessant. Such is the pain and loss, literal and figurative, of cancer. Surviving comes at a high price. #thisissurvivorship. Chronic. Persistent. Long-lasting. Perpetual. Stubborn. Insistent. Unrelenting.
Oh August 7. You are a hard day. I find myself a little lofty today…like, floaty sort of. Triggered for sure. Think of an old Tom & Jerry cartoon…Jerry, a slight cheese smell wafting
I feel so disconnected today…my head from my body, my heart from my head, my gut from my heart…ugh. I’m foggy headed. I am struggling to put any two thoughts together to make any
Today I am overwhelmed by all of the emotions. It’s August. I just don’t have the ability to put words together to make any sense tonight. . . This Day in 2018: August. It’s
August starts tomorrow. For me, August holds some painful memories. And August is just the beginning of a whole slew of months with painful memories. So, today, as July wraps up, I wanted to
“It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” Unknown “Will it be easy? Nope. Worth it? Absolutely? Unknown My kid is about to do something that
“F%#k cancer.” Said everyone ever to be touched by it Sorry not sorry to state the brutal reality of cancer. This Day in 2018: Sad Reality It was a very long and difficult week.
“Cancer is your most feared recurring nightmare. Your most influential teacher. Your most loyal follower. Your most read dog-eared, heart-wrenching, can’t-put-it-down, nail-biting, provocative page-turner with a terribly unfair ending. Your most honest mirror. Your
“I am not hopeless. I am not helpless. I am not worthless. But I am ‘less’ than I once was. This is a brutal truth that many don’t want to admit. Cancer is a
“Cancer is not just six letters connected to make a word.” @ThePurposedSailor ‘Cancer’ is so common a word that its value really seems to be only in the letters that are connected to make